The risky rush to close Rikers.

When it comes to Rikers Island, City Hall’s desperation is showing. Mayor de Blasio and his minions had a two-step response Wednesday to the weekend’s brutal attack on a correction officer: They beefed up security at the jail by adding new personnel and issuing TASERS. They put on a show to make it look like...

Time: 21:08&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Date: 14.02.2018

Mayor de Blasio and his minions had a two-step response Wednesday to the weekend’s brutal attack on a correction officer:

They beefed up security at the jail by adding new personnel and issuing TASERS.
They put on a show to make it look like the plan to replace Rikers altogether is steaming ahead.

Neither step is what it seems.

The new security moves reek of improvisation and half-measures. By contrast, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, whose progressive bona fides are surely as proven as de Blasio’s, is calling for at least a partial rollback of the mayor’s ban on punitive solitary confinement.

Yes, the City Council speaker is on board, as are the four councilmembers whose districts include the new sites. And that’s enough for the usual land-use-approval process.

But jails are even more controversial than homeless shelters and drug-treatment centers — and Team de Blasio already has at least one borough president’s nose out of joint on this one.

Bronx Beep Ruben Diaz Jr. pointedly complained about being left out of the loop on this decision, as did his councilman father, the Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. Others may feel snubbed without going public.

Which means the council could still derail this plan, as it did de Blasio’s repeated efforts to kill the carriage-horse industry.

Plus, of course, the new jails would only house 5,000 detainees, where Rikers now holds about 9,000 — and that’s a decades-long low.

Part of City Hall’s rush can be laid at Gov. Cuomo’s door. The gov’s fingerprints are all over a damning state Commission on Correction report that cites Rikers (and four out-of-town jails) as plagued by failures in management and regulatory compliance.

Cuomo is also threatening to force a rapid Rikers shutdown. Where exactly would the governor put the inmates?

Bad enough that the drive to replace the current jail complex is moving ahead with so little public debate. Far worse to do it in a rush.